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The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don't want anyone messing it about or endin' it befor...more

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Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from...more

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I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

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At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. 'Yum!' he'd say, and 'Charcoal! Good for you!' and 'Burnt toast! My favorite!' and he'd eat...more

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It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

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I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they alw...more

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I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappoin...more

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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'I said, ...more

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But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.

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I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was i...more

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I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adu...more

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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, ...more

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He told me that the phrase “the happiest days of your life” referred to your school days.This seemed nonsensical to me then, and I suspected it of bei...more

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I should mention here that librarians tell me never to tell this story, and especially never to paint myself as a feral child who was raised in librar...more